Garment-hanger.



(No Model.)

A. BDUCHEB.

GARMENT HANGER.

(Application filed Apr. 1'7, 18994) Patented Dec. 4, I900.

PATENT Erica ALLEN BOUCHER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE OALDYVELL MANUFAOTURIN G COMPANY, OF NEYVYORK.

GARMENT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,908, dated December 4, 1900. Application filed April 17, 1899. berial No. 713,424. the model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ALLEN BOUOHER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment-hangers, and particularly to such garment-hangers as are adapted to clamp articles of clothing in them, whereby the clamping assists in keeping the form of such articles. This embodiment of my device is adapted to hanging of pantaloons which are supported in it by clamping the lower edges of the legs of the pantaloons between the two parts of the device.

In the drawing, A is the body or main part of the garment-hanger having a lower edge a, that is preferably straight, and B is a strip of suitable material adapted to be held parallel to the lower edge of the body A and to be clamped against the side of said body.

0 O are arms pivotally connected to the clamping-strip B and pivotally supported or hinged to the body-piece A. The arms 0 O are preferably made of one continuous piece of iron havinga loop 0 connecting them,which is normally sprung outward at the middle of its curvature from the body-piece A.

The clamping or pressure arm D is pivoted at d to the body-piece A at a point that is substantially the center of the circle of ourvature of the connecting portion 0 between the arms 0 (J and may be turned so that it presses against the curved connecting-piece c. The plane of the curved piece 0 is at an angle to the plane of the adjacent face of the body-piece, and as it is farthest from said piece A at its center it follows that as the arm D is turned over the curved piece 0 said curved piece is compressed more and more as the said arin' approaches its center. The

arm D, however, maybe turned around so far as to be disengaged entirely from the curved piece 0, and in this last position the strip B is released from compression against the body-piece A and may be swung outward therefrom to release any article that may have been clamped between said strip B and the body-piece A. On inserting the lower edges of a pair of trousers-legs between the strip B and the body-piece A the arm D is turned around until it engages upon the curved piece 0, whereupon a clamping action will occur wherein the pressure maybe increased up to the point where the arm D is in contact with the middle of the curved piece 0. This produces a graduated pressure, so that the trousers-legs may be clamped with greater or less force, as may be desired.

The device is adapted to the supporting of trousers made of cloths of different thicknesses without compressing the cloth at the place of compression so far as to mark it permanently.

What I claim is- A garment-hanger consisting of the bodypiece A having a strip B along its lower edge, arms 0, O, pivotally connected to said strip and to said body-piece and having the curved connecting-piece c integral with said arms, the plane of said curved connecting-piece being at an angle to the plane of the adjacent face of said body-piece, and the rotary pressure-arm D pivoted to said body-piece and adapted to press against said curved connecting-piece so that said connecting-piece moves toward or away from said body-piece and thereby to produce variable pressure of said strip against said body-piece, according to the position of said clamping-arm, substantially as described.

ALLEN BOUOHER.

Witnesses:

CHESTER F. KIEHEL, (J. M. PERKINS. 

